KX9000 & Cosmonection - "La Locha" - (5:35) 127 BPM
KX9000 & Tour-Maubourg - "April" - (5:55) 125 BPM
Everw**day - (4:05) 122 BPM
Review: Despite the success of a run of releases on Pont Neuf at the turn-of-the-decade, Kerim Ben Mustapha AKA Kx9000 has been rather quiet of late. In fact, this outing on LYAM marks the Paris-based producer's first release of note for over 12 months. It's a wonderfully warming and sonically attractive affair all told, with Mustapha dousing a jazz-funk influenced deep house groove in boogie and P-funk flavoured instrumentation on classy opener 'Sauce Pepe'. He joins forces with Construction to explore their joint love of synth bass-propelled, turn-of-the-90s style New Jersey deep house on 'La Locha', before inviting old pal Toure-Maubourg to sit behind him on the super-smooth deep house-with-synth-funk-sonics flex of 'April'. To round things off, he adds twinkling electric piano solos and colourful boogie synths to a head-nodding, toe-tapping boogie groove on 'Everyw**day'.
Review: Fresh from the release of two tip-top 12" singles on Handy Records and Wolf Music, Malik Kassim brings his trademark Retromigration sound to the freshly minted LYAM label. Typically warm, woozy, bass-heavy and with plenty of musical details - think Ron Trent, with a dash of the Burrell Brothers and the Detroit deep house swing of Andres - all four cuts are superb examples of the Dutch producer's approach to dancefloor dynamics. Highlights include the laidback, club-ready bump of 'Heat it Up', where undulating acid lines and synth-sax catch the ear; the shuffling, broken house sparkle of 'You Want That' (a genuinely sumptuous late-night delight smothered in spacey synth solos); and the mid-tempo, jazz-funk style title track, where loose-limbed live instrumentation and emotive solos come to the fore.
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